Re: emacs clipboard handling for X broken?

[Miles Bader]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> I tried to paste text from Mozilla 1.6 (build 2004011400) into Emacs,
> and I get e.g. for Chinese instead of `不想睡' the following:
>
>   \x{4E0D}\x{60F3}\x{7761}
...
> Is this a known problem?  I'm lost and ask for help.

FWIW, I can cut and paste japanese just fine in both directions between
Emacs (started with `-q', so the defaults seem OK) and mozilla-firefox
0.9.3 (I think this roughly corresponds to mozilla 1.7.2).

selection-coding-system's value is `compound-text-with-extensions'.

LANG is set to `ja_JP.UTF-8'.

I've noticed in the past that the setting of LANG is crucial to making
Mozilla do CJK cut-n-paste correctly, and that in general Mozilla is
pretty fucked up in this area -- if LANG is _not_ set `properly', then
it will screw up cut-n-paste.

Here's Mozilla bug report that may be related:

   http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137659

-Miles
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